{"id":4742,"date":"2021-08-11T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alvarotrigo.com\/epa\/best-css-button-hover-effects\/"},"modified":"2024-02-08T00:31:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T23:31:27","slug":"best-css-button-hover-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alvarotrigo.com\/blog\/best-css-button-hover-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best CSS button hover effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let me test my psychic powers for a second.<\/p>\n

I bet the last time you created a CSS hover effect for a button on your site, you flipped the colour of the text with the colour of the background and used a transition<\/a> of somewhere between 0.3 and 0.5 seconds.<\/p>\n

Am I right? Do you feel seen?<\/p>\n

Or perhaps you google a bit and found a list of cool CSS animations to add to your website<\/a> and picked a couple of them, right?<\/p>\n

Even if not, would you agree that this is the most common way to create CSS hover animations for buttons? I’m not knocking it – I’ve done it many times myself. It works.<\/p>\n

But… there are plenty of other ways you can animate your buttons with CSS, which could make your site more fun and help it stand out from the crowd.<\/p>\n

So let’s explore some other options!<\/p>\n

CSS button gradient effects<\/h2>\n

At the time I’m writing this, you can’t animate gradients with CSS – at least, not directly<\/em>. There is, however, a way to trick CSS into doing what we want – we just make the background larger than the button, and move the background on hover. The result is an animated gradient effect on your buttons.<\/p>\n

Here are a few examples – you can take one of these and change the gradient colours and angle if you want:<\/p>\n\n